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Chaotic LAPSUS$ Group Goes Quiet, but Threat Likely Persists

The LAPSUS$ group emerged with a big splash at the end of 2021, targeting companies, including Okta, with a "reckless and disruptive" approach to hacking.

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Russian Hackers Tricked Ukrainians with Fake "DoS Android Apps to Target Russia"

Russian threat actors capitalized on the ongoing conflict against Ukraine to distribute Android malware camouflaged as an app for pro-Ukrainian hacktivists to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against Russian sites. Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG) attributed the malware to Turla, an advanced persistent threat also known as Krypton, Venomous Bear, Waterbug, and Uroburos, and

CVE-2022-29060: Fortiguard

A use of hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability [CWE-321] in FortiDDoS API 5.5.0 through 5.5.1, 5.4.0 through 5.4.2, 5.3.0 through 5.3.1, 5.2.0, 5.1.0 may allow an attacker who managed to retrieve the key from one device to sign JWT tokens for any device.

Amazon Handed Ring Videos to Cops Without Warrants

Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week's top security news.

Tiny Mantis Botnet Can Launch More Powerful DDoS Attacks Than Mirai

By Waqas Mantis Botnet launched 3,000 DDoS attacks in one month using only 5,000 small bots after which Cloudflare dubbed… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Tiny Mantis Botnet Can Launch More Powerful DDoS Attacks Than Mirai

CVE-2022-25858: fix potential regexp DDOS · terser/terser@a4da734

The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions.

Why 8kun Went Offline During the January 6 Hearings

The latest Jan. 6 committee hearing on Tuesday examined the role of conspiracy theory communities like 8kun[.]top and TheDonald[.]win in helping to organize and galvanize supporters who responded to former President Trump's invitation to "be wild" in Washington, D.C. on that chaotic day. At the same time the committee was hearing video testimony from 8kun founder Jim Watkins, 8kun and a slew of similar websites were suddenly yanked offline. Watkins suggested the outage was somehow related to the work of the committee, but the truth is KrebsOnSecurity was responsible and the timing was pure coincidence.

Mantis Botnet Behind the Largest HTTPS DDoS Attack Targeting Cloudflare Customers

The botnet behind the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in June 2022 has been linked to a spate of attacks aimed at nearly 1,000 Cloudflare customers. Calling the powerful botnet Mantis, the web performance and security company attributed it to more than 3,000 HTTP DDoS attacks against its users. The most attacked industry verticals include internet and telecom, media,

Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices

In this post, we break down three endpoint security for Mac best practices to help you prevent phishing attacks, DDoS attacks, and much more. The post Endpoint security for Mac: 3 best practices appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

GHSA-5pgm-3j3g-2rc7: Error messages leading to potential data exfiltration in Valinor

```php <?php namespace My\App; use CuyZ\Valinor\Mapper\MappingError; use CuyZ\Valinor\Mapper\Tree\Node; use CuyZ\Valinor\Mapper\Tree\NodeTraverser; use CuyZ\Valinor\MapperBuilder; require_once __DIR__ . '/Valinor/vendor/autoload.php'; final class Money { private function __construct(public readonly string $amount) { } public static function fromString(string $money): self { if (1 !== \preg_match('/^\d+ [A-Z]{3}$/', $money)) { throw new \InvalidArgumentException(\sprintf('Given "%s" is not a recognized monetary amount', $money)); } return new self($money); } } class Foo { public function __construct( private readonly Money $a, private readonly Money $b, private readonly Money $c, ) {} } $mapper = (new MapperBuilder()) ->registerConstructor([Money::class, 'fromString']) ->mapper(); try { var_dump($mapper->map(Foo::class, [ 'a' => 'HAHA', 'b' => '100 EUR...